Mrs. Tudor previously served for seven years on the Houston Archeological and Historical Commission, three of those as Chairman. She is the Founder and Chairman of the Julia Ideson Library Preservation Partners, responsible for raising funds and overseeing the restoration and addition to the Houston’s oldest library. She has served for more than two decades on the Hermann Park Conservancy, including as chair the Centennial Garden and Pavilion and honorary chair of the Commons, raising funds for new gardens and playground areas, and restoring the original clubhouse in the city’s oldest park. Mrs. Tudor has served as advisor for many projects including the River Oaks Theater restoration and the Luther Hotel, the oldest wooden hotel along the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Mrs. Tudor has a B.A in Art History from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She was appointed the Mayor’s Preservationist of the Year in 2013 and received the President’s Award from Preservation Houston in 2014. She serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Rice University School of Architecture. She serves on the boards of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Preservation Houston, The Hermann Park Conservancy, The Houston Seminar, Precinct4Forward, the Bond Oversight Committee for the Houston Independent School District and the Houston Ballet. Mrs. Tudor and her husband, Bobby, were named Philanthropists of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2009. They have three children.

In 2010, Ms. Cahill earned a master’s degree in Religion (Hebrew Bible) from the Yale Divinity School. Ms. Cahill also holds degrees in Classics from Harvard and in English Literature from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Ms. Cahill has been a Trustee of the Greenwich (CT) public library, the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, St. Andrew’s School (DE), and Ashley Hall. After returning to Charleston, her hometown, in 2010, she joined the board of the Preservation Society of Charleston and has served as its chair since 2015.

Mr. Bates’ volunteer leadership history includes roles as former board chair of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s for-profit Landmarks Development Board, a founding member of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation, and former Vice President of the Allegheny Land Trust. Mr. Bates has been an active member of the American Institute of Architects for the past 30 years and served as the organization’s national 2019 President. The Governor of Pennsylvania has recently appointed him to the State Architects Licensure Board.

Prior to eBay, Mr. Clemens managed international legal affairs at VeriFone, Inc., before and after its acquisition by the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. He joined VeriFone after working as an associate at Baker & McKenzie, an international law firm, and serving as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of International Trade. He served as a Non-Executive Director of eBay Auction Co., Ltd. (formerly, Internet Auction Co., Ltd.). He holds a Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Dartmouth.

Mr. Clemens served as the chair of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's board of trustees from November 2020–March 2023, and interim president & CEO of the National Trust from March 2023–January 2024.

Prior to serving on the Burlingame City Council Mayor Colson spent twenty-five years working in global institutional investment management and consulting. She is the founder of a youth sports facility that hosted premier soccer and futsal training and competition. Presently, she serves on the Board of Directors for Filoli Estate and Gardens (President 2015) which is a National Trust co-stewardship site and location of the famed Woodside Summit with President’s Biden and Xi. She is a founder of the UC Berkeley Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership, and an Advisory Committee member to the UC Berkeley Haas Business School. She also serves on the board of the San Mateo County Historical Museum and the College of Letters and Science Advisory Board at the University of Wisconsin.

Mayor Colson lives in Burlingame, California with her husband Eric, and they have two adult daughters. She attended UC Berkeley earning a BA in Political Economics and a MBA in real estate and finance.

Mr. Dixon currently serves on the board of the Edenton Historical Commission, the North Carolina Museum of History Foundation, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and the National Main Street Center. He is a member of the North Carolina Historical Commission and the North Carolina National Register Advisory Committee. Mr. Dixon and his wife, Gray, chaired the National Trust Council from 2014-2017. Since 1999, he has been elected to serve on the Edenton Town Council where he serves as the budget Chairman. In 2013, he was awarded the Cannon Cup, North Carolina's highest preservation honor. Mr. Dixon graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1984 with a BA in Political Science and from the Wake Forest School of Law with a JD in 1987.

Mr. Dwin began his career as a trader with Goldman Sachs, New York & London, there earning the Michael P. Mortara Award for Innovation. At Credit Suisse, he was the Co-Founder and Head of the North American Special Opportunities business until 2010. Damien also served on the Vice President Selection Committee and led the Fixed Income Division Credit Training Program.

Mr. Dwin serves on the nonprofit boards of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Studio Museum in Harlem, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Boys’ Club of New York and Vera Institute of Justice. He is a Council Member of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Dwin received a B.S./B.A. from Georgetown University.

Mrs. Frist serves on the boards of several prominent organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Better Angels Society, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and The Nature Conservancy’s Tennessee Chapter. She also provides leadership to the Tennessee Teach Back Initiative at Middle Tennessee State University, co-chairs America’s Grasslands Leadership Team (supported by the Volgenau Foundation’s Climate Initiative) and is a leader in the Collegiate Helmet Initiative, promoting safety and awareness among collegiate equestrian athletes.

Previously, Mrs. Frist served on the boards of Hollins University, the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, and Centerstone Tennessee, which provides mental health and substance use services across multiple states. She also supported military families as a board member of the Stephen A. Cohen Military Family Clinic.

Mrs. Frist earned her BA from Warner Pacific College and went on to complete both an MA in Analytical Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing at Hollins University. She worked on her PhD in educational psychology at Purdue University.

Mr. Gelderman’s early professional life included serving as chief of staff and general counsel in the Louisiana Department of Treasury. In that role, he was instrumental in launching the highly successful Louisiana Asset Management Pool, a multi-billion-dollar investment pool serving local government offices across Louisiana. Mr. Gelderman led LAMP as its Secretary/Treasurer many years after its founding.

He is a former president of the New Orleans Garden District Association, was the founding President of the Garden District Security District and has served on numerous community boards through the years, including the Preservation Resource Center, the St. Charles Avenue Association, the Louise S. McGehee School, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and the Louisiana Architecture Foundation. Mr. Gelderman is the immediate past vice-president of the board of the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a former co-chair and long-time member of the National Trust Council. He is serves on the Board of Directors for WYES, New Orleans’ public television station.

Ms. Hoagland received her BA from Brown University and her MA in American Studies, with a concentration in historic preservation, from George Washington University. She has written six books on various aspects of American vernacular architecture; her most recent is The Row House in Washington, DC: A History (University of Virginia Press, 2023).

Ms. Hoagland currently serves on the boards of Westover School, a girls’ boarding school in Middlebury, Connecticut, and the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. She has previously chaired the board of the Delaware Historical Society, chaired the Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission in Calumet, Michigan, and served as president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. She has also served on the boards of the National Council on Public History, the Michigan State Historic Preservation Review Board, and on the Committee of 100 on the Federal City. In the early 1980s, she was an adviser to the National Trust when she was also on the board of the DC Preservation League (originally Don’t Tear It Down!).

Peter is a member of the Investment Banking Management Committee and Chairman of the Equity Capital Markets Committee. In his 25+ years at Baird, Peter has held several leadership positions, including Chairman of the Investment Banking and firm-wide Recruiting Committees, member of the Investment Committee of the Baird Venture Fund and a Director of the Baird Foundation.

Prior to joining Baird in 1992, Mr. Kies was a Director of Investments for The Equitable and on the staff of Governor Tommy Thompson. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a member of the University of Wisconsin Foundation Board of Directors. Mr. Kies is a former Trustee of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, and First Stage Children’s Theater.

Mr. Parker grew up in the midwestern utopian town of New Harmony, Indiana, where he worked from a young age on preservation projects. He subsequently earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he served on the Harvard Design Magazine Practitioners’ Board. His firm has received three Palladio Awards, two Stanford White Awards plus numerous honors from the American Institute of Architects, as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Tony Goldman Award. Additionally, Mr. Parker is well known in the field of American Decorative Arts with a specialty in the Aesthetic Movement.

At American Express, Ms. Skyler launched the company’s first Environmental, Governance and Social (ESG) Strategy and Framework, which encompasses three core pillars: Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Build Financial Confidence; and Advance Climate Solutions. This strategy was released in the company’s first ESG Report in the fall of 2020.

Additionally, to help small businesses as they recovered from the economic effects of the pandemic, Ms. Skyler and her team launched the Backing Historic Restaurants campaign, which is now a $2.5 million annual grant program in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to support historic and culturally significant restaurants smaller and independent historic eateries. Ms. Skyler’s Corporate Affairs & Communications function also played a key role in creating the Coalition to Back Black Businesses, a collaboration between American Express, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the nation’s four leading Black Chambers – the National Black Chamber of Commerce, National Business League, Walker’s Legacy and U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. – to award $10 million to support Black-owned small business recovery in the U.S. over the next four years. The program has supported more than 600 businesses to date.

Prior to American Express, Ms. Skyler served as Chief Communications Officer at WeWork, where she built a multi-disciplinary department that included communications, government relations, public affairs, strategic events, brand, and social impact. Before that, she launched and oversaw Facebook's consumer communications and data science teams and was responsible for the press strategy around key products and partnerships that encompassed news, sports, entertainment, and social good. Ms. Skyler also worked at Polyvore, a company acquired by Yahoo, where she was the first public relations hire, leading communications and marketing strategies.

Ms. Skyler began her career in newsrooms, first at CNN, where she started as an executive assistant and rose through the ranks to become a White House producer. After working with Norah O’Donnell at MSNBC, Skyler became an anchor producer at the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. At CBS, she was part of the team that was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won the Alfred I. du Pont Award for political coverage during the 2008 election.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Ms. Skyler majored in Communications Studies with a concentration in Japanese. She serves on the University of Michigan’s Tri-State NextGen Leadership Council, is a member of the Institute for Public Relations Board of Directors, is on the National Trust for Historic Preservation Board of Trustees, sits on the Board of All in Together, and is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society.

A native of Flint, Michigan, Ms. Skyler lives in New York City with her husband, Ed, and their three children.

Mr. Vila has broken new ground on the Internet with a fast-growing website, BobVila.com. The website has his complete TV library, as well as a rich trove of exclusive original online content. From inspirational galleries to how-to articles, the site covers the entire home improvement journey. Mr. Vila also takes his advice into the social realm, with 1.5 Million+ Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and Pinterest followers.

In the last five years, Mr. Vila has channeled his passion for renovation into helping with the restoration of Ernest Hemingway’s home and collections at Finca Vigía near Havana, Cuba. Hemingway lived there from 1939 until his death in 1961 and he left it to the Cuban people as a museum. This project has allowed Mr. Vila to visit his parents' homeland several times.

Mr. Vila also serves on the board of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York and the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust.

Prior to the founding of CFIG, Williams was an Executive Director with Prudential's private equity group and an associate with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

Mrs. Williams served as the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Smithsonian American Art Museum from 2021-2024, having previously chaired its Nominating Committee, and she is the former Chair of the board of the Nantucket Historical Association. She is Vice Chair of the board of The Norton Museum of Art where she serves on its Executive Committee and chairs its Marketing and Communications Committee. Williams is the former Vice Chair of the board of the Robert Toigo Foundation, and is the founding board chair of the Private Equity Women Investor Network. Additionally, she has served as a Board member for The Greenbrier Companies (GBX), KKR Private Equity Conglomerate, Grasshopper Bank, The National Philanthropic Trust, the NY School of Interior Design, and The Olana Partnership.

Mrs. Williams has received many awards throughout her career in the financial services industry and from 2011 through 2014 was named one of The Most Powerful Women in Finance by American Banker Magazine. She graduated magna cum laude from Union College in 1986 and received her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 1989. She is a proud New Yorker, having grown up in the Hudson Valley (Newburgh), where her family has lived for 400 years. She and her husband reside in Palm Beach, Florida.

Prior to joining the National Gallery, Mrs. Feldman served as the Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) for 11 years. She is vice chair of the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art, past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a past chair of the American Alliance of Museums. In 2021, Forbes magazine named Mrs. Feldman one of the “50 Over 50” most visionary women making an impact on society today.

Ambassador Danies joined the Foreign Service in 1987 after working for USAir. Among his other diplomatic postings were assignments in Sanaa, Paris, Belize City, Geneva, and Kabul. In Washington he worked in Legislative Affairs, Press and Public Affairs Officer to the President’s Special Representative on Haiti, Colombia Desk Officer, Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Global Affairs, Deputy Special Coordinator for Haiti, Chief of Staff in the Bureau of Administration, and Associate Dean at the Foreign Institute’s School of Professional and Area Studies.

Originally born in Haiti, he grew up in New York and in Baltimore, Maryland. He received an MA from the National War College and a BA from the University of Maryland. He speaks French, Haitian Creole, and some Arabic.

Before becoming PRC’s executive director, Mrs. Del Sol served as deputy editor and then editor of PRC’s magazine and oversaw PRC’s website and social media. We note that Jack Davis, National Trust emeritus Trustee and then-interim PRC director, actively supported Danielle’s promotion to executive director.

Outside of her work at the PRC, Mrs. Del Sol has held a number of other roles in preservation in New Orleans, including five years teaching a course she developed called “Preservation Advocacy” at Tulane University, and formerly serving on the local Central Business District Historic District Landmarks Commission. Nationally, she serves on the boards of the National Preservation Partners Network and Preservation Action. These roles give Mrs. Del Sol unique insight and in-depth knowledge of the field.

Mr. Torrez helped found Latinos in Heritage Conservation and currently serves on its Executive Board as well as the boards of the Ray Bradbury Carnegie Center and the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago. Always eager to lend assistance, Mr. Torrez currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for the National Fund for Sacred Places, a joint project of the National Trust and Partners for Sacred Places, and on Landmark Illinois’ Reinvestment Committee. His firm has worked on many projects that received National Trust support including the Muddy Waters Home, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House, and Pullman National Historical Park.